Sentences with 'sunk'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sunk and other words derived from it.
• « The invasion became a nightmare for the Athenians, with every ship captured or sunk and almost every soldier killed or captured and sold into slavery; this dramatically weakened the Athenian army. »
• « When ships carrying American civilians were sunk in 1917, American public sentiment finally changed and the US declared war on Germany in April 1917. »
• « The greatest of European powers in the 16th century, Spain had long since sunk into obscurity, commercial weakness and backwardness. Its society in 1920 was much the same as it had been a century earlier: most of the country was populated by poor farmers and rural labourers, and an alliance of the army, the Catholic Church and old noble families still controlled the government in Madrid. »